Apparently they just changed one of the trash mobs in Dun Scaith with the Prototype Ultima (at least if you have the quest up??), so yea the there are a lot of complain topics right now about it not even being a real fight.

To be fair though, they should have just pushed this whole patch to a later date. The only reason we got this in between patch was mainly to give us back the Diadem and seeming how the had to delay the Diadem duo to a critical bug

The salt is indeed real Don't really get why though, the weapons are pure RNG. First you'll need to get the right weapon to drop, then you need to outrol the rest and last but not least its pink gear so the stats are RNG as well. And to top it all off the weapon won't get you much further into Storm Blood than the lvl 275 weapons

I'm not sure I understand your question. If it's any help, the starting vendor weapons from HW were ilvl115, while the ARR relic was ilvl135. I guess we can expect something around ilvl260 at the start of Stormblood.

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